"NDS: Book 11: Chapter 71: Naval Battle"
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Jet moved around a wave fired from Nobuo, and bounces from off the wall in a hurry. With no thought to the action Jet went into a spiral action, dodging a blow from Nobuo before landing one right on the older man's cheek. With Nobuo dazed, Jet launched countless punches as fast and hard as he could, with most hitting. Nobuo was able to break free though, and with a crescent kick, send Jet into the nearest wall. The two stood and looked at one another as they caught their breaths.
"You're still holding back on me, Jet. Use the moves you used on Loki in the tournament and on Dal."
"So…you did see that?" Jet grinned. "I was wondering why I haven't tried that myself, just yet."
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"What's that just ahead of us?" Sakura wondered as she squinted her eyes in an attempt to see. There were some shadows in the distance approaching Eon. And thusly approaching them since they are now Eon's tail.
Adven sat down with a breath, relaxing before they made him go back out on the roof again. He eyed the shadows. "Those are most definitely sandcraft used by the Ark of Destiny. We must be closer than we thought to the Ark after all if they could see Eon and already perceived it as a threat."
"If we are close to the Ark, then we have to stop Eon. If one person is killed, Nobuo will win." Virginia resolved.
"To stop eon…we would need the Twilight Lone again." Clive noted.
"What?" Virginia questioned. "You mean, without that thing we stand no chance?"
Clive solemnly nodded. "Yes, I have figured out the purpose of Twilight Lone being in this sandcraft, but I think the Sun or Moon would have worked better."
The ship is suddenly rocked by an explosion. "What was that?" Sakura wondered.
Clive fixed his glasses, also feeling odd that he had not done that in some time. "It looks to me that the Ark has five craft after Eon and they are firing…and all of them missing."
On board the bridge of Eon sat Carole at the helm as she observed the Ark's ships approaching the Eon. "Foolish men." She cursed under her breath. "Why are they so willing to throw away their life?" She moves her hand, and presses down on a button as a large beam weapon fires outward at the 'V' formation of the Ark's five sandcraft. The beam was large enough to disintegrate two of the ships and leave them smoldering hulls. "I suppose they should just learn their lesson."
Ruthlessly she fires upon another craft, taking it out of action in moments. By now her feelings were coming to the surface as she let out a laugh of satisfaction. "The unfair world will learn to make itself fair in my favor!" With another aim and press of her button, the fourth craft went down leaving only one Ark ship in the sea. That one ship had picked up enough speed that it could not be slowed, and it eventually ran into the previously downed ship, getting caught. It was then that Eon was only moments away, and in the end, Carole ran the two wreckage's over like they were nothing as helpless cries went out. She looked into the distance and saw the Ark. "The first step has come." Carole first noted that nearby was Cape Aznable, and in response, fired a beam round at the town, obliterating most of it and sending it's inhabitants scrambling.
It was then that the door to the bridge opened and Carole glanced back to find Gallows staring right at her with a glare. Silence hit the two.
Within Cape Aznable citizens were grabbing what they could in a riot as some were just trying to save their families. All of them were running through the streets though in pure mayhem. However, there were three people who stood calmly upon the rooftop of the inn. Virgule Caradine looked to his wife and Hyato. "Here begins the final stand."
"It seems your son and his friends failed." Hyato mocked.
"Look again Hyato." Gallows' mother replied.
"Huh?" Hyato looked at Eon and formed a grin. "I see, they're still fighting then. It's just that…they're becoming too late."
"My son, nor Clyde's brother will not fail us." Virgule remarked.
"What about the daughter?" Hyato questioned.
"Her?" Virgule wondered. "I have faith in her as well."
"I will go to the sandcraft of our son." Amigone Caradine replied.
"Amigone…" Virgule trailed off with worry.
"If this is the end I want to make sure my son will make it out alive." She defended.
Hyato nodded. "Then Virgule and I will take our craft and take on Eon. We'll drop off Amigone on our way."
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Just miles northwest of the Ark of Destiny, Eon and it's Maxwell Gang tail came into view. Adven noticed another vessel as a shadow coming towards them, this time from behind and from Cape Aznable. "Is that another Ark sandcraft?"
"Huh?" Virginia looked outwards as it came into view. "No…that's…that's Gaea!"
Closing alongside of our heroes ship came the Gaea as it had dodged the shots from Eon that sensed it as an enemy. With the Maxwell Gang's sandcraft harpooned on the Eon it would not be seen as one. It was then that Amigone jumped and landed perfectly on the Maxwell Gang's craft before the Gaea departed and used their engines to full to get ahead of them.
Swinging into the craft's bridge was Amigone. "Hello everybody." She calmly announced.
"Y-You're…you look like Gallows…" Virginia remarked.
"I should. I am his mother." She smiled pleasantly. "I am Amigone. No need to tell me who you are. I already know your names."
"Look, this is fine and dandy meeting you, but we're sort of in the middle of something." Sakura remarked.
Amigone nodded. "Right. I know. For years the organization Gaea has existed to keep Filgaia safe from it's misuse of the past. For the last eighteen years the newest incarnation, Hyato, Clyde Enduro, myself and my husband have been putting Nobuo's dreams to rest and stopping them. Unfortunately, we aren't strong enough, and all we could do was prevent him from getting the Twilight Elements. Now it has come to this."
"So you were the one who has been giving us tips like the note on how to get to Eon, and you even saved us from Leviathan." Virginia muttered.
"Why did you not tell us it was Eon and instead Twilight Lone?" Clive wondered.
"Oh, that." She stuck out her tongue in an embarrassing childish way. "I have no explanation for that." She became serious. "Now, how will we win?"
"We were sort of expecting an answer from you." Virginia replied.
She shook her head. "Gaea has no way of fighting Eon, but this ship does. We gave the Twilight Lone to Mr. Robertson with this exact, worse-case scenario in mind."
Clive nodded. "I think I understand what is going on there too. I think though, that in order to do anything, we will need the Lone back in our possession."
Amigone grinned. "No problem then. That shouldn't be an all too hard task."
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…Sigh, so I can't finish another chapter. Sorry. You might get the next one on Tues, or Weds. Depending on when I get back and how I feel. I really wanted to write the next chapter because of the summary I had for it. It went like this in my list:
Chapter 72: Nobuo vs. Jet
And that was it! That was all that it said, so it would have been fun to write the next battle scene. Of all of NDS, the Nobuo-Jet one is the longest one I write. It was already started, and it goes on until Chapter 76, with only a chapter break I think.
Anyway, I would like to say I'm sorry about how I had the same two lines written about five times. I don't know how it happened. I did do a redo on my Edit bar that many times after deleting something, so maybe that was what it did it. I also want to say I'm sorry for writing whipped when I meant wiped. It was a crucial scene if I recall, and not just some throwaway line, so it probably confused you, but in a world and language where read (red) and read (reed) are spelt the same it's easy to confuse words with other ones.
So, anyway, I put a foreshadow in this chapter. Can you guess it? Tell me what it is and maybe I'll give you a gift…or maybe not. There' s no way I could really do that, physically.
Anyway, so long until next week, how sad.